Casper has not applied to any colleges, so if she goes to school next year it will be community college (which is a fine choice; it’s good.) My preference for her would be to work some and travel some; she needs to develop some independence. But how soon travel becomes a sensible option remains to be determined. She’s also not 18 until late August.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jan 26, 2021 5:35:46 am PST #2741 of 29986
information libertarian
Laura - Jan 26, 2021 6:23:26 am PST #2742 of 29986
Our wings are not tired.
So much love and compassion for the teachers, parents, and students. As tough as the past year has been for all of us, it would have been exponentially worse if I had school age children, or worse been a teacher. My niece teacher has just had her 4th or 5th regimen change this year. All in person, except children opting to be virtual. All virtual. several days a week virtual, part time in person. The stress level is off the charts. And of course the stress level of the students is also off the charts.
Still no vaccines here. My governor sucks. I've put myself on waiting lists here and there.
DavidS - Jan 26, 2021 7:50:05 am PST #2743 of 29986
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She’s also not 18 until late August.
Similar to Emmett and Matilda who are both September babies. So he arrived on campus at age 17 and that was (in retrospect) too early for him.
Toddson - Jan 26, 2021 7:54:57 am PST #2744 of 29986
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I have a question for the hive mind ... in regard to a Word document I'm trying to clean up. It's been edited by multiple people and SOMEONE (no way to tell who) set up some kind of style/formatting that I can't fix.
It's a document with automatically generated table of contents. The group's logo is supposed to appear at the top of the first page of the actual text. However, it's appearing at the bottom of the table of contents. It has a little anchor symbol next to it. If I insert a page break, it forces the logo to the top of the next page ... but nothing else is on the page. The actual text starts on the next page. I can't move, delete, copy/paste the logo to put it on the page it should go on. I tried taking out the orphan/widow option, with no luck. Tried selecting "keep with next" with no luck. I've tried everything I could think of ... and there's no way I can find to fix this. Suggestions? I'm really not good with Word ....
Dana - Jan 26, 2021 7:57:50 am PST #2745 of 29986
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It sounds like the logo needs to be in the page header, Toddson.
Amy - Jan 26, 2021 8:14:50 am PST #2746 of 29986
Because books.
The disparity in where vaccines are available makes no sense. Here, even senior citizens can't get it, but in Bucks County (NE of Philly, where I'm SW) a friend who's younger than I am by nine years or so already got hers. She is a social worker/counselor, but I would think most of those appointments would be virtual?
Right there with you on the high school seniors. Sara has gotten her shit together since I last posted about it (at least in terms of saving her grades for the first marking period), but getting through to graduation? She's excited about college (for values of college that equal more independence, and partying, most likely), but at the same time, who knows what's going to be happening in the fall?
She's also applying to St. Joe's and Temple in Philly, and that terrifies me. The area around Temple is really sketchy. Weirdly, if she were applying anywhere in NYC, I'd be fine with it? I guess because I know NYC.
My big hurdle is paying for it. She's going to need, like, 100% financial aid. It exhausts me just to think about it.
Toddson - Jan 26, 2021 8:21:15 am PST #2747 of 29986
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Dana, thanks for the tip ... I'll give it a try.
-t - Jan 26, 2021 8:25:12 am PST #2748 of 29986
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Controversial statement: I am eating oatmeal cookies with raisins and they are delicious
I have nothing helpful for the Word problem or the student issues. I can report that my brother got his first dose of the vaccine (he works in an assisted living facility) last week, yay!
JenP - Jan 26, 2021 8:41:38 am PST #2749 of 29986
I approve or raisins in oatmeal cookies. There are lots of places where they sometimes go that I do not approve (stuffed grape leaves? picadillo? no, thank you), but oatmeal cookies are OK. Actually, I think I'm good with sweet raisin use, but I don't like savory with raisins.
I have no new options, Toddson, but I do have empathy for you. Hate that kind of thing.
We have a powdered sugar on funnel cake sprinkling of snow this morning.
And now I want funnel cake. Bah.
Laura - Jan 26, 2021 8:42:40 am PST #2750 of 29986
Our wings are not tired.
No controversy for me. I loves oatmeal raisin cookies. Yum!
Amy, one of our friends went to Temple for medical school. It was quite the adjustment after living in a posh suburban Boca Raton area. He lived. And stayed in Philly where he now has his medical practice. It is a super sketch area for sure, as is much of Philly honestly. I think it is the only place I have lived where I was uncomfortable, this was back in the early 70s when the police force was the greatest danger. Shuddering at the memory.